Road LIfe – The Thein Way to Live

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been back down under. To say the least, I was excited to be back.

One of the reasons why I was excited to be back, is because Australia changed my life. I learned a lot about myself and I learned a lot about life and what it meant to me. I learned that if I wanted something, I had to get it, if I wanted something to change I had to do it, if I had a challenge ahead of me I had to work through it.

I’m sure this would be the same thing if I had an internship in Europe, but my friend group and the people I have met over there changed my life for the better. It was truly one of the most remarkable and greatest experiences of my life. I truly cherished every second of it and I’ll never for

Just a couple of things you need to know about Australia:

Yes, there are the most dangerous animals down there but don’t worry if you are hanging out in the city, you’ll be fine. If you hang out in the bush, you’re going to have some problems… maybe.
Australia is America flipped upside down with a twist of Eastern influence run by the British monarchy. It’s a very unique and unexplainable in a way. Between the architecture, food, art, music, there’s a lot of mixes of each of the different cultures.
People are genuinely nice, I haven’t met “mean” Aussies, crazy yes, mean not so much. I think when your background comes from criminal descent, you just want to be treated like you’re not a criminal.
Overall, Australia tends to be very liberal believe in universal health care, “freeish” education, and of course clean drinking water.
As of a google search of today, there are only 25.69 million Australians, to put that into perspective, there are 39 million people who live in California.
Yes, Australia is expensive, but what do you expect living on a big island so close to Antartica.
Australia is the size of the United States, so Perth is LA and Atlanta is to Sydney. It’s very wide and very large.
The seasons are “backwards”, so for example, are fall is starting as their spring approaches.
Australians love their music and they love their country music. I was astonished how many people knew my bosses songs.

This was the first time I went to Brisbane, was when I went to the Gold Coast about 11 years ago. Most people that go to Brissy go to the Gold Coast. It’s where the waterparks, night clubs, and all the tourists/family stuff is. Brissy is a cool city, but I think there’s more around the city like the wildlife sanctuaries and the beaches. Brisbane was a great place to start tour, the weather was nice, it’s in the middle of the country on the coast, and it was easy to go north or south. I think if I go back to Brisbane, I’ll spend more time by the beaches.

Brisbane, Australia

This really wasn’t the “tour” part, this was the travel part from the UK to the Netherlands. But I will say I got to see a lot of the world… through a double-decker tour bus. If you haven’t been to Europe, you figure out really quickly, that a lot of these countries are very close. Driving through to the UK, to take a ferry to France, then the drive to the Netherlands, you hit about 6 countries just within that drive alone. However, you do get to see some neat scenery from the cliffs of dover, to the great big large ports on the coast.

While you sleep a lot on the bus, because what else do you do on a tour bus with 11 other people, you kind of just watch the world roll by. It’s a beautiful thing to watch the scenery as you drive to your next destination. As we get off the buses in Tilburg, everyone, everywhere is riding a bike. If you know anything about me, I love public and eco-friendly transportation. Tilburg is about an hour outside from Amsterdam, a cute little tiny, just making fresh food and coffee. It made me realize staying in this city that we really can do things better in America. From food, to work life, to transportation, there are better ways and things can always be improved. One of the many cities I’m lucky enough to experience that I may never go to again.

The show in Tilburg was great, a small cute venue I would love to go back to again. However, the city struggled as it reached record temperature highs, and they don’t have AC. My favorite part of my show was my runners, I can’t do my job without the runners, and they really help me out. Harold and Max, if you are reading this, I’ll give you recommendations any day.

Fun little fact about the Netherlands, it has the best tap water in all of Europe to drink!

Then we made the trip to Denmark, and I wish we had more time to spend in Copenhagen. From unique buildings and structures, the history, and the diversity of food is outstanding. The venue we were at was well designed, easily one of the best venues I’ve been to and the venue staff is very accommodating. I wish I could have stayed longer there, but I guess I’m very excited to see where life takes me next. My plan is spend more time in Copenhagen, I have a really good friend from there, I know there’s more to offer in Copenhagen!